“MTS and” Lisaalet “launched a free service to search for missing people

MTS digital ecosystem announces partnership with the search and rescue detachment “Lizaalat”. The MTS. Gopoisk service allows, in the event of a subscriber’s disappearance, information about the location of the missing person in a matter of minutes.

You can connect the service in the My MTS application in the “Defender” section or in the “Family Group”. To do this, the user needs to consent to the transfer of data on his location and the charge of the mobile device in the search and rescue squad “Lisaalat” in case of emergency.

Information about the location of the missing people is transmitted in automatic mode immediately after the request from the Lisaalet. All information is transmitted through the encrypted channel and interface, which were designed specifically for the exchange of data with representatives of the search and rescue detachment.

Data on the missing are collected from a mobile device, including GPS, Wi-Fi data, and from the active base station to which the device is connected at the time of the information request, this allows you to provide the most accurate geodata about the location of a person in real time. The accuracy of the data is from 50 to 150 meters depending on the model of the mobile device of the missing and on the development of the area.

“When a person disappears, every second of time becomes priceless, and telecommunication technologies can help as quickly and accurately determine his location. Our joint project with Lisaalet is a great achievement in the field of search and rescue operations, and now we have taken the first step in this important matter. In the future, we plan to develop our cooperation by creating new technologies and tools for the search for the missing, ”comments on the general director of MTS PJSC Inessa Galaktionov.

“In the Lisaalet detachment, we monitor the news in the field of development, participate in the setting of tasks and testing smart solutions, use all the newest technologies allowed for use in our country. All this allows you to make a search for the missing faster and more efficiently. For many years in a row, we tried to access the location of people who were in distress using changes in the legislation, and this failed. We are pleased that a socially responsible business has come to the rescue and created a new tool that allows you to quickly get geodata without long bureaucratic procedures, and thereby increase the chances of saving people, ”said Grigory Sergeyev, chairman of the search and rescue detachment of Lizaalet.

Since 2010, more than 300 thousand applications for the search for the missing ones have been found in the search and rescue department, almost 260 thousand people were found.